AKA Jessica Jones coming to ABC

Melissa Rossenberg who is now known for adapting the "Twilight" films is adapting Brian Michael Bendis acclaimed comic "Alias". Obviously they can't use "Alias" so they're going with the lame title "AKA Jessica Jones". So far as the article says Marvel has declined to comment. This would seem to be the third show that Marvel TV is developing...the other two are "Hulk" and possibly "Cloak and Dagger" for ABC Family.

If this gets picked up. That means in the next two or three years we will have potentially six live action television series on air. "Wonder Woman", "Raven", "Blue Beetle" (if this is still in development), "Hulk", "Cloak and Dagger, and "AKA Jessica Jones". I don't think there has ever been that many on air at the same time before. Not including animated series that will be airing as well.

There's a show on right now in England called "pulse" or at least a pilot was aired a few months back at the sme time as four other shows and the highest rated will get a spot in the line up. Some crappy thing about evil doctors using weird science I couldn't get through to the end of because it sucked...

In the late 70s there was a show called Alias Smith and Jones about cowboy bank robbers in some ancient version of parole/witness protection, but there was an english sketch comedy show called Allas Smith and Jones.

AKA sounds horrible.

Apart form James Bond mentioning Alias on Chuck last month it's possible that the kids today don't remember such olden day things as the beginning of this decade... Wait? Is 2010 the beginning of the new decade? Well 2011 certainly is.

I remember they tried to make Alias comics butt hey weren't allowed to use the name because Alias was being published at the time and they had to call the book "Agent Bristow" so fairs fair?

This could be interesting except for two things: First, they'll have to water it down for ABC, and second, it will (probably) lose its connection to the Marvel Universe, which was part of the appeal for me. We'll see....

I don't think it will lose it's connection to the Marvel U since this is being produced by Marvel TV and so that means Jeph Loeb will have an Executive Producer's credit most like. As will Bendis being the creator of the comic. Marvel has been pushing heavily they're new animated and TV divisions specifically to reflect this.

^^ That's what has me puzzled, in terms of the premise of the series. What will the actual premise be, if they sever it from the context of the original book? Private investigator with inconsistent superpowers? I don't know that this alone would make it stand out...

When Kazar asked her to go to the Savage land to find his Tiger Zabu... It's like she was rainman stuttering the phrase "Go fuck yourself" keeping time with a beat box.

Daredevil, not that he understood, but he played Andrew McCartney in the Alias version of pretty in Pink... That's right Luke "SAY MY NAME JUNKIE" Cage was/is Ducky (John Cryer.). DUCKY GOT THE GIRL!!! Andrew and daredevil are both dick heads.

I can't really see this working. It would be as if they tried to make 52 a television show. I'm not saying that it would be bad, just that the attempt serve the audience that doesn't have any idea who the fuck Spider-Woman is presents a lot of pressures that would undermine, as someone else said, the appeal of the series.

I don't think it will lose it's connection to the Marvel U since this is being produced by Marvel TV and so that means Jeph Loeb will have an Executive Producer's credit most like. As will Bendis being the creator of the comic. Marvel has been pushing heavily they're new animated and TV divisions specifically to reflect this.

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Yeah, that's why I added "probably" at the last minute. But will we really see characters like Captain America and Luke Cage? Different versions of Iron Man or FF than the movies? That would be pretty cool if so. Well, possibly pretty cool.

So this Marvel TV thing means that they can go apeshit with established characters without paying through the nose unlike when some shmoe buys a license to play with just a few characters who hang out in one book.